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Is mother a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word mother is a Scrabble US word. The word mother is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is mother a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word mother is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

M3O1T1H4E1R1

Is mother a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word mother is a Words With Friends word. The word mother is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

MOTHER,

5-letter words (7 found)

HOMER,HORME,METHO,METRO,OTHER,THERM,THROE,

4-letter words (23 found)

HERM,HERO,HOER,HOME,HORE,HOTE,METH,MOER,MOHR,MORE,MORT,MOTE,MOTH,OMER,ROHE,ROTE,TEHR,TERM,THEM,THRO,TOME,TORE,TREM,

3-letter words (31 found)

EMO,ERM,ETH,HEM,HER,HET,HOE,HOM,HOT,MEH,MET,MHO,MOE,MOR,MOT,OHM,ORE,ORT,REH,REM,REO,RET,RHO,ROE,ROM,ROT,THE,THO,TOE,TOM,TOR,

2-letter words (16 found)

EH,EM,ER,ET,HE,HM,HO,ME,MO,OE,OH,OM,OR,RE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 79 words from mother according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of mother

mother

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmʌðə(ɹ)/, [ˈmɐðə(ɹ)]
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmʌðɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: moth‧er

Etymology 1

From Middle English moder, from Old English mōdor, from Proto-West Germanic *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Doublet of mata and mater.

Some have proposed that the "dregs" sense is from Middle Dutch modder (“filth”), from Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“sediment”), but modder is not known in this meaning. On the other hand, words for "mother" have developed the secondary sense of "dregs" in several Romance and Germanic languages; compare Dutch moer, French mère de vinaigre, German Essigmutter, Italian madre, Medieval Latin māter, and Spanish madre.

Alternative forms

  • mither (Scotland and Northern England)

Noun

mother (plural mothers)

  1. A female parent, sometimes especially a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
  2. A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
  3. A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
  4. A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
  5. (figuratively) A female ancestor.
  6. (figuratively) A source or origin.
  7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
    • 1991, January 17, Saddam Hussein, Broadcast on Baghdad state radio.
      The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun.
  8. (dated, when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
  9. (dated) A term of address for one's wife.
  10. (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
  11. (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
    • Judges 5:7, KJV.
      The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
    • Galatians 4:26, KJV.
      Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
  12. Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
  13. (rail transport) A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
  14. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
  15. The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
  16. (obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
  17. A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
Synonyms
  • (one’s female parent): See also Thesaurus:mother
  • (most significant thing): father, grandfather, granddaddy
  • (of or pertaining to the mother, such as metropolis): metro-
Antonyms
  • (with regards to gender) father
  • (with regards to ancestry) daughter, son, child, offspring
Hypernyms
  • (a female parent): parent
Coordinate terms
  • (a female parent): father
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • → Japanese: マザー (mazā)
  • → Korean: 마더 (madeo)
  • Kriol: motha
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English modren, from the noun (see above).

Verb

mother (third-person singular simple present mothers, present participle mothering, simple past and past participle mothered)

  1. (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
  2. (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
  3. (transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
  4. (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.
Translations

References

  • American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company 2003.

Etymology 3

Clipping of motherfucker

Alternative forms

  • mutha

Noun

mother (plural mothers)

  1. (euphemistic, mildly vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.
  2. (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
Synonyms
  • MF, mofo, motherfucker, mutha
Translations

Etymology 4

Coined from moth by analogy to mouser.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɒθə(ɹ)/

Noun

mother (plural mothers)

  1. Alternative form of moth-er

References

Further reading

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “mother”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • thermo-

Middle English

Noun

mother

  1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of moder

Source: wiktionary.org